Tag Archives: EU-U.S. Safe Harbor

FTC Announces Enforcement Action, Warning Letters for Companies Falsely Claiming Privacy Shield Participation

Photo of Shea M. LeitchBy Laura E. Jehl and Shea M. Leitch on Posted in EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a compliance sweep of companies claiming to be in compliance with the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield and U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks. The U.S.-EU Privacy Shield and the U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield programs enable companies to self-certify that they have adopted a number of data protection practices to bring their businesses … Continue Reading

Looking Back: The Federal Trade Commission Issues Annual Data Privacy Report for 2017

By John Busch on Posted in Cybersecurity, Enforcement, News
On Jan. 18, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its Annual Privacy and Data Security Update. The update is helpful to businesses in that it recaps the efforts and areas of involvement the FTC has targeted in the past year as well as guides data protection strategies for 2018. The report provides a detailed … Continue Reading

Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Promote Cross-Border Data Transfers and Restrict Data Localization

By David M. Brown on Posted in International Privacy Law
As U.S. and European regulators and businesses work toward solutions in the wake of last month’s decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union that invalidated the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor framework for cross-border data transfers – previously discussed here and here – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement seeks to facilitate cross-border data … Continue Reading

German Data Protection Authorities Limit Use of Alternative Data Transfer Mechanisms in Light of Safe Harbor Decision

By Jenna N. Felz and Alexandra Beierlein on Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law
In the weeks since the October 6, 2015, Court of Justice of the European Union decision (“CJEU Decision”) that invalidated the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor framework, companies have been faced with the quandary of establishing legal alternatives for transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. We have discussed alternative data transfer mechanisms such as standard … Continue Reading
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